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Rainer,

On 3/29/2011 3:06 AM, Rainer Jung wrote:
> On 23.03.2011 22:29, Lance Campbell wrote:
>> I discovered an issue with mod_jk.  In the workers.property file I miss
>> typed lbFactor=2 with lbactor=2.  Mod_jk was able to continue to work
>> which
>> I appreciate.  But I would have liked to have received an error message
>> letting me know that I had a typo.  I am using RedHat 5.  So I would be
>> using the same version of mod_jk as what has been deployed by RedHat.
>>
>> Is there something I could do different so that I can see a warning
>> message
>> or error message when I have a typo like this?
> 
> There is no easy way to do this, because the workers.properties file
> allows to set arbitrary variables like
> 
> myvar=123
> 
> and reuse those definitions later on with $(myvar).
> 
> So in your case the typo made lbfactor into the variable lbactor :(
> 
> It would have been safer to make variables sytactically distinguishable
> from builtin properties, but it's too late now for compatibility reasons.

Any interest in deprecating arbitrary variable declarations in favor of
something like this:

worker.vars.variablename=foo

Or, are arbitrary variable names allowed to contain "." and other
possible obvious delimiters?

Thanks,
- -chris
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